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CF rules
The Community Fund has published its updated grant assessment manuals on its website at
www.community-fund.org.uk/index2.htm. These give detailed guidance to the CF’s assessment staff on how to process and score applications. They will be of interest and practical help to anyone involved in advising community groups on CF applications, helping with pre-application development work or bid-writing.
Lottery review dates
You need to submit views and proposals on the future of the lottery licence and regulatory regime to the DCMS by 27 September.
Comments and proposals on the lottery funding review must be sent to the DCMS by 30 October. See July Lottery Monitorfor briefings on both reviews and details of how to submit your views. If you would like to forward a copy of your submission to
jane@lottery-monitor.com we will publish summaries in the next issue.
NLC musical chairs
The lottery regulator has appointed a new chairman in its annual seat-shuffling exercise. Harriet Spicer will step down in October in favour of Brian Pomeroy, who chaired the Commission in its first year, and now takes his second shift. The one-year limit on the post of NLC chair is under scrutiny as part of the lottery licence review. QUEST, the Culture department’s efficiency and standards team, has released a report on the role of culture and sport in combating social exclusion. QUEST examined the research and practical work going on in a range of DCMS-sponsored NDPBs, including the Arts Council of England and Sport England. It concluded that, despite the Government’s wish for sport and arts to contribute to social inclusion, this is not reflected in NDPBs’ policy or strategy. In fact, it states, ‘rhetoric, practice and evidence-gathering are only rarely heading in the same direction’. QUEST offers a set of analytical and performance tools for NDPBs to try and help clarify their role and objectives in relation to social exclusion. Download the report from
www.culture.gov.uk